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Cisco Systems continues to dominate the global switching and routing market -- and has a solid footing in the enterprise-networking sector -- even as it faces competition from emerging software-defined networking rivals, a data report has found. According to research from Synergy, in 2012 Cisco maintained a 70% share of the routing industry and sizable portions of the switching, WLAN and telepresence markets.

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